Biographical entry Gunn, Ronald Campbell (1808 - 1881)

Summary

Ronald Campbell Gunn was a colonial public servant and politician who also had an interest in botany. From 1842-49 he was editor of the "Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science" and was a plant collector for many years for W.J. Hooker.

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Ronald Campbell Gunn - Records, ML MSS 1180; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Ronald Campbell Gunn - Records, 1825 - 1828, MS Q571; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Ronald Campbell Gunn - Records, 1859 - 1860, MS Q167; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Charles Gould - Records, 1865 - 1870, MS 162; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Community History Collection

• Ronald Campbell Gunn - Records, 1800 - 1850; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Community History Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Buchanan, A. M., The Tasmanian Collecting Localities of Ronald Gunn and Joseph Milligan, Tasmanian Herbarium, Hobart, 1988, 56 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Burns, T. E.; Skemp, J. R., 'Gunn, Ronald Campbell (1808-1881), botanist, public servant and politician', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 492-493. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010448b.htm. Details
• Lucas, A. M., 'Ronald Campbell Gunn, 1808-1881', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Details

Conference Papers

• Buchanan, A.M., 'Ronald Campbell Gunn', in Short, P.S. (ed.), History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988, Australian Systematic Botany Society, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 179-192. Details

Journal Articles

• Balaam, Violet E., 'Ronald Campbell Gunn', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 82, no. 3, 1965, pp. 90-91. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Tasmanian Botanists', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1909, pp. 9-29. Details
• Reynolds, J., 'Ronald Campbell Gunn', Tasmanian Naturalist, vol. 1, 1926. Details
• Willis, J.H., 'Botanical Pioneers in Victoria', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 66, 1949, pp. 83-89; 103-109; 123-107. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Gunn, Ronald Campbell', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464992. Details